This requires significant private investment from the wireless industry. <br />Did you know? <br />The wireless industry is <br />preparing consumers for the <br />next era of connectivity. Since <br />2001, wireless carriers have <br />made nearly $300 billion in <br />sustained capital investment in <br />the United States, not including <br />investments made in spectrum.' <br />The U.S. wireless industry is <br />valued at $195.5 billion, which is <br />larger than the publishing, <br />agriculture, hotels and <br />lodging, air transportation, <br />motion picture and recording <br />and motor vehicle manufacturing <br />industry segments.' <br />Cell sites are a vital part of today's infrastructure, making wireless <br />investment and faster network construction more important than ever before: <br />• Cell sites enable consumers and businesses to get connected wherever they are. <br />• Increasingly, customers are going wireless, choosing to connect via newer <br />technologies and products rather than older ones, making capacity and cell <br />coverage more important than ever before. In fact, approximately 2 out of 5 <br />American adults live in wireless-only households' <br />Individuals and households are not the only ones who are going wireless. <br />• Businesses increasingly depend on strong wireless service to carry their <br />employees through the work day. 94 percent of small businesses surveyed <br />use smartphones to conduct business and mobile technologies are saving <br />U.S. small businesses more than $65 billion a year.' <br />• Public safety is improved by the poi/\ier of mobile cornrnunications as a <br />critical tool for first responders in emergency situations Mobile phones <br />provide caller location and callback information, enabling quick and <br />accurate emergency reporting. <br />AT&T is committed to expanding and improving wireless network infrastructure to deliver the quality high-speed <br />services our customers demand. <br />AT&T has invested nearly $119 billion in its wireless and wireline networks in the U.S. over the past six years. In 2013, we <br />invested nearly 121 billion to improve and expand our networks and we expect to invest in the same range for 20"14. <br />The Velocity IP (VIP) plan: Even better things to come... <br />To expand access to high-speed Interner service and bring new mobile services to customers, AT&T launched the <br />VIP plan to: <br />• Densify AT&T's national wireless network through the deployment of macro sites, disti antenna systerns and <br />small cells. <br />• Expand 4G LTE, which now covers more than 300 million people in the U.S. <br />• Expand and enhance AT&T's high-speed IP broadband network to 57 million cl_IStorner locations in our wired service <br />area by year-end 2015- <br />• Expand AT&T's fiber net(niork to reach one million new business customer locations <br />These upgrades will help provide the reliability and performance you <br />expect from the nation's fastest and most reliable 4G LTE network. <br />121 ~n- l _r.. and l ilri,L1_ =1- - ~,;tsar_ Ff,)r, F,arl Nile-.eorEsn~a-e.n(_i,Irhe .eal-hli i >lr &/,_znn aine 12 (Dec 20O1::;) <br />nieKar Sf- ~~i -rhn._- idin,App i„I &Tirnr I Iy-O1a <br />ctPe-,a, l iur:, s~Pr'u ken h1,iii iru I I, , III(, ~_iorerhe; ~nrnlTT n Fneru/ n1 ~r i~l^n. rcd Jbco(~rT n eii:e i~an~it~acr~inng ~nrlTrarie <br />Scpr?r~b~rl? 'ray; <br />Lo- fl hda 1 L~_aI- archA_;naa-ion Apnlt?Ol-_ <br />1~I~-~NC;rk nil-~ (~I=d.=1-Ir~LIIaG era Traffl torecas Ul,alare_ nIJ-?Oka rel_~n_ani 2U1~. <br />Encys~an.l~~lobilr, ~apo~ J~~:neZO1-~ <br />Cidler' _ar~lrnr - ~I -rl -u~le-„ .al,e;- ~'~FI~_=.E~~i e-,.pic ~,-hesL.~cL Eanl. t=,r~er c:aicl~rrillL,~~ _I. ;lob~3 T 1-cem_~-1~.ir,rn~r -.tla - Ian I-- <br />-'i ~i al iru;= TI wi- .I,-!.~-I" TF~_ E anrl.a-n_[r- lay ?012. - <br />J ATTT iin - Tech PG,I 1U I- <br />